CO: Back Home

I decided to stop by the Post Office and get my held mail only to find 4 buckets of packages waiting for me. Only 5 packages where things I ordered. The rest were presents from friends of friends for my birthday. It took 2 mail clerks 40 minutes to scan them all. I then made a quick trip to the market and then went home. My dogs were more than thrilled when I got there, but they had left a huge mess that I am still cleaning up. At least they had gotten groomed while I was gone and so they looked nice and got pampered.

Now that I am back I have to get the house cleaned and organized again. I also have to watch all my taped shows, go through all the new books and DVDs I got for my birthday and get back to work. I had received a message from FairPoint while I was away about switching from satellite Internet (with its usage limit) to getting it through our phone (with no usage limit.) I was supposed to get a package from them that the installer would use when he came this Friday. The message said that the high-speed Internet that we were told about wasn’t available in our area (surprise, surprise) and that our appointment was now moved to August and not this Friday and that no one would have to be home for the installation – which doesn’t make since. What do they do with the modem? I knew something like this would happy and that’s why I told my dad (who really wanted the change in Internet providers) that he would have to contact FairPoint as soon as he came home on leave and yet  - as usual – he waited until a few days before he was to go back rather than weeks before. I dealt with this kind of mistake (on both his and FairPoint’s part) a few years ago and it literally took me 7 months of fighting with FairPoint to get things back to normal. I’m feeling déjà vu here.

Back to the trip to Colorado. All-in-all it was a good, fun trip. I don’t know if or when I will go back, but hopefully I will and the next time will be more like this last time rather than some of the other times I have been there.